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TV Midseason is here and one of the many shows we have to look forward to (or dread) features the return of 43-year-old actress Ashley Judd.

While Judd made her name in movies like "Double Jeopardy," she's trying out the small screen with a series that looks... well, exactly like a lot of her big screen films.

ABC's "Missing" follows Judd's character Rebecca Winstone as she desperately tries to find her son when he disappears during a summer internship in Italy.

Winstone and her recently deceased husband ("Game of Throne" star Sean Bean) were CIA-agents so she uses all of her old tricks. Think "Taken" with a woman.

In honor of Judd's new show and subsequent comeback, we've compiled a list of things you may not know about the "Kiss the Girls" actress, including her affinity for Kentucky University basketball games and an Estee Lauder beauty line.

She likes to give back.

Judd is a global ambassador to the YouthAIDS foundation, an educational and prevention group, and actively participates in other organizations from the Children's Medical Research Institute to Defenders of Wildlife.

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Judd has a Broadway debacle.

While performing a fight scene in "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway in 2003, Judd broke her foot and had to undergo foot surgery. Pretty bad experience for a second Broadway appearance, bu it gets worse.

Her co-star Jason Patric ("The Lost Boys") didn't seem so sympathetic. In fact, the actor later told Entertainment Weekly that Judd was "lazy, selfish and arrogant."

Female empowerment!

In addition to participating in groups like Equality Now, Women for Women International and the International Center for Research on Women, Judd also had the honor of introducing Gloria Steinem at the March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C. in 2004.

Language and ancestry are interesting hobbies.

The actress fancies herself an etymologist—the study of language and words.

In 2011, Judd made an appearance on the show "Who Do You Think You Are" where she found out that an ancestor that she previously thought was injured in prison actually sustained his wounds during the Battle of Saltville from the Civil War.

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The Judd family exposed.

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2011 brought the release of Judd's memoir "All That Is Bitter & Sweet."

The book exposed details of the Judd's dysfunctional family, including the relationship her mother had with a heroin addict and an experience with sexual assault..